Daily Archives: September 28, 2021

2021-09-28: News Headlines

Staff (2021-09-28). Venezuela's Justice First Blames Guaidó's Popular Will Party for Misuse of National Assets Abroad. orinocotribune.com Justice First [PJ/Primero Justicia] conveniently omitted any mention of its own complicity in the crimes against Venezuela. | As negotiations progress between the government of Venezuela and the opposition in Mexico City, it is becoming increasingly evident that there is practically no consensus remaining in the well-known G4 coalition (PJ, Democratic Action, Popular Will, and A New Era) for the false "interim presidency" of Juan Guaidó. | Earlier today, the Justice First [Primero Justicia] party published a statement in which it washed its hands of the seizure and misuse of the assets of the Venezuelan State abr…

_____ (2021-09-28). Tensions Rise At Third Round Of Stalled Government-Opposition Negotiations. popularresistance.org Mérida — The Venezuelan government and US-backed opposition held a third round of talks in Mexico City over the weekend amid increasing friction. | The weekend negotiations followed "fruitful" encounters in August and early September. Following previous sessions, the two parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding, opposition politician Freddy Guevara was released from prison, a number of hardliners signed up to participate in the upcoming November 21 elections and US $5.1 billion was transferred to the country's international reserves by the International Monetary Fund. | The talks bring together represen…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-09-28). Avanza en México diálogo entre Gobierno de Venezuela y las oposiciones. telesurtv.net Noruega ha reafirmado su compromiso con el proceso de negociación venezolano en México, actuando como facilitador imparcial.

Leonardo Castañeda (2021-09-28). Understaffed, Unsanitary ICE Facility in New Mexico Fails Annual Inspection. aclu.org This piece originally appeared on the ACLU of New Mexico's The privately-run ICE detention center in Torrance County, New Mexico failed its government inspection earlier this year, with a newly released report finding severe understaffing, unsanitary food, and visitation rules that were inaccessible to people with no money, among other complaints. | The

teleSUR, drl (2021-09-28). Francisco pide perdón por excesos cometidos por la Iglesia en México. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado del Vaticano utilizó el término evangelización para referirse a la invasión europea del siglo XVI.

Ociel Alí López (2021-09-28). Maduro Off the Ropes and Straight to Mexico. zcomm.org Tthe importance of Maduro's presence at the CELAC Summit in Mexico…

Women of the IPA* (2021-09-28). The struggle for reproductive rights is global. peoplesdispatch.org Capitalism's need for the reproduction and care of the labor force was institutionalized during the creation of the modern state, which legislated the biological determinism of women towards the home, motherhood and the private sphere of social reproduction. Since then, the women of the world have been organized, fighting for a concept of citizenship that does not exclude women, migrants, LGTBQ or racialized people. In this struggle, they have widened the path of democracy and brought forth revolutions, as well as broadening the theory and practice that transform the world. | This path has been one of twists and…

Staff (2021-09-28). Chile to Continue Evicting Venezuelan Migrants. orinocotribune.com Police forces of Chile's Sebastian Piñera evicted around 150 families of undocumented Venezuelan immigrants from makeshift camps in the city of Iquique in northern Chile. The next day a crowd of at least 3,000 people joined the eviction with posters and xenophobic insults, while the most radical elements burned the belongings of these Venezuelans migrants in vulnerable conditions. | The Chilean Interior Minister, Rodrigo Delgado, expressed his rejection of the violence of the protest, but assured that the Chilean government will continue "with the evictions in all the public spaces that are required" and also "wi…

Staff (2021-09-28). UN Condemns Xenophobic Attacks on Venezuelan Migrants in Chile. orinocotribune.com The UN and Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned of an increase in xenophobia in Chile due to attacks on Venezuelan migrants in the northern regions of the South American country. | Felipe González, special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants at the United Nations, described the attack on Venezuelan migrants in Iquique, in northern Chile, as "unacceptable humiliation." | "The xenophobic discourse, equating migration with crime, which unfortunately has become more and more frequent in Chile, feeds this kind of barbarism," he said on Sunday through his Twitter account. | In turn, the United Nations Children's Fund…

Cecilia Vergara Mattei (2021-09-28). Xenofóbica violencia contra migrantes venezolanos en Chile. globalizacion.ca Los violentos y xenófobos hechos suscitados el fin de semana en Iquique, en el norte chileno, donde en medio de una manifestación en contra de la migración irregular, un grupo de personas incendiaron las pertenencias de familias, en especial venezolanas,…

Ana María Aragonés (2021-09-27). Éxito de CELAC, faltaron los migrantes. globalizacion.ca Se llevó a cabo, bajo la presidencia pro tempore mexicana, la Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac), en la que participaron 31 gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe. Alicia Bárcena, directora de la Comisión Económica…

Paul Dobson (2021-09-27). Tensions Rise at Third Round of Stalled Government-Opposition Negotiations in Mexico. venezuelanalysis.com Caracas accused Washington of meddling by giving "shameful" and "interventionist" orders to the opposition bloc.

Staff (2021-09-27). Mexico Talks: Venezuelan Government Delegation Overcomes Impasse with Norway After Controversial Statements at UN. orinocotribune.com At night on Saturday, September 25, the head of the Venezuelan government delegation for the Mexico Talks, Jorge Rodríguez, reported that an impasse with the Kingdom of Norway has been overcome, after the representative of the facilitating team of that country, Dag Halvor Nylander, issued a statement assuring that Norway will maintain "strict impartiality." Nylander also regretted the statements made by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg at the UN General Assembly. | Solberg, who recently lost elections in his country, stated in her speech at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly that "we hav…

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-27). México se moviliza a 7 años de desaparición de los 43 normalistas de Ayotzinapa. telesurtv.net Marchas por la verdad y justicia del aún inconcluso caso sobre la desaparición forzada de los 43 estudiantes de una escuela normalista.

The Conversation (2021-09-27). Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties. juancole.com By Karen Musalo | — The U.S.'s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration's "inhumane" treatment of Haitian migrants crossing the border via Mexico into Texas. The resignation came amid debate over the U.S. decision to deport thousands of Haitians entering the U.S. in search of asylum or …

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-27). Venezuela denuncia boicot de Colombia contra diálogo en México. telesurtv.net La denuncia responde a una declaración del Gobierno colombiano sobre una supuesta violación de su espacio aéreo.

James Goodman (2021-09-27). A Pathway for Undocumented Immigrants Is Essential. progressive.org A "no" by an unelected Senate parliamentarian should not be the last word.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-09-27). Xenophobia: Right Wingers Evict Venezuelan Migrants in Chile, Set Fire to Their Belongings — Vuelta a la Patria Activated. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, September 26, a new episode of xenophobic violence occurred in Chile, in the midst of a protest against migrants, mostly of Venezuelan nationality, whose clothes, mattresses, baby strollers, toys and tents were burned. | It is estimated that about 3,000 Chileans participated in the xenophobic protest in the city of Iquique, capital of the northern province of Iquique. The city, a coastal town with resorts and spas on the coast of the Pacific ocean, is a popular tourist destination. They reoccupied . | The protesters occupied a square where undocumented and homeless people live, and the events turne…

teleSUR (2021-09-27). Venezuela Demands Respect for Migrants in Chile. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, President Nicolas Maduro's administration demanded that the Chilean authorities respect the human rights of Venezuelan migrants who were victims of violent acts of discrimination. | RELATED: | "Venezuela repudiates xenophobia and aggressions against its migrants and demands that the Chilean national and subnational authorities respect the physical and psychological integrity of our fellow nationals,"

Martha Grevatt (2021-09-27). Racist brutality against Haitian migrants sparks outrage. workers.org The whole world has responded with horror and anger at images of Haitian migrants being whipped and terrorized by U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback. Parallels have been drawn with chattel slavery in the Western Hemisphere, which was first ended in Haiti when enslaved Africans carried out a successful revolution. . . . |

teleSUR (2021-09-27). Thousands of Haitian Migrants Remain Stranded in Colombia. telesurenglish.net The humanitarian situation is deteriorating in the Necocli Municipality in Colombia, where some 20,000 Haitian migrants are trying to cross to Panama and then head to the United States through Central America. | RELATED: | Over the last weeks, hundreds of asylum seekers have been arriving in this municipality every day. Local media and social organizations have denounced that the situation is deteriorating rapidly a…

Ipek S. Burnett (2021-09-27). Gunfighter Nation Meets Haitian Migrants. counterpunch.org The image of a White patrol agent with a cowboy hat, on horseback grabbing a Black migrant, carries echoes of the American Old West, invoking the still lasting power and presence of the Myth of the Frontier. In Gunfighter Nation, cultural historian and scholar Slotkin explores how the Myth of the Frontier has always been inseparable from violence—a violence that was carried out in the name of progress and civilization, while at the same time justifying conquests, imperial ambitions, and endless tyranny.

Latin America News Dispatch (2021-09-27). US Envoy to Haiti Resigns Over Biden Administration's Handling of Haitian Migrants at the Border. latinorebels.com Daniel Foote stated in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the deportation policy would exacerbate the already dire situation in Haiti and in turn, drive more migrants to the border.

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